LACHNELLA. 263 
dingy olivaceous-green; margin paler, fringed with 
delicate flocci; hymenium cinereous; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate or irregularly clavate; sporidia 8, linear oblong 
or oblong-fusiform, straight or curved, 8 x 34; paraphyses 
filiform, branched. 
Peziza escharodes—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1322, t. xix. f. 15; “Grevillea,” i. p. 180. 
Exs.—Rabh., “Fung. Eur.” 1418; Cooke, “Fung. 
Brit.,” 564, and ed. ii. No. 548; Phil, “ Elv. Brit.,” 73. 
On dead stems of Rubus and Rosa. 
Cups nearly 3a line broad; at first closed, globose, 
then expanded, vertically striate or rugose, becoming 
black, except the margin, but always appearing rough 
with very minute hairs under the microscope. 
Name—2cyapa, scab ; scaly, resembling a scab. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Eastbourne! (Mr. 
C.J. Muller). Hencote, near Shrewsbury ! 
(8) Paraphyses acerose. 
50. Lachnella barbata. (Kunze.) 
Cups gregarious, sessile, globose, then expanded, at 
length nearly plane, firm; externally ferruginous, tomen- 
tose; hairs long, septate, obtuse; hymenium pallid; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 5—7 x 1—2y; 
paraphyses acerose, rather slender. 
Peziza barbata—Kunze in Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 
p. 99. Lachnea barbata—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 82 (%). 
Exs.—Fries, “ Scl. Suec.,” 332. 
On dead stems of Lonicera. 
Cups nearly 4 a line broad. 
Name— Barba, a beard ; hairy. 
Var. 8. pellita. (Pers.) 
Differs from the type in being greyish or dilutely 
gilvus. 
Pers., “Myco. Eur.” i. p. 264; Bucknall, “ Fung. 
Bristol,” No. 619; “ Grevillea,” x. p. 67. Lachnea pelliia 
—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 83. 
On Lonicera and beech-mast. 
